Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last gasps on the negotiation trail...
...white man's)) rule," Orwell has his character say, "that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him . . . To come all that way, rifle in hand, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing -- no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me." George Bush "has drawn his rifle," says Ajami. "He cannot back down...
...trail led them to Louis Marx Jr., a New York City financier. Marx, an heir to a toymaking fortune, supplied Bush with $2.3 million in government- guaranteed financing to bankroll Apex Energy, an oil exploration firm the President's son started in May 1989. Marx's venture-capital firms were declared insolvent a year later, triggering a $25 million federal bailout. As a result, taxpayers may once again have to underwrite a Neil Bush venture. Bush financed his earlier firm, JNB Exploration, with loans from two Silverado customers whose $130 million in defaults helped escalate the cost...
...Adnan Awad finally appeared in court. In July 1987, based on his testimony and other evidence, a federal grand jury indicted Rashid, Pinter and Abu Ibrahim for the 1982 Hawaii bombing and other actions. Now the U.S. government was armed with an indictment, but Rashid's trail had grown cold. The search kicked into high gear. In early 1988, electronic intercepts and other intelligence tracked Rashid to a house in Khartoum, where he was living with Pinter...
...equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment and recrimination blazed by David Duke, then trod successfully by Jesse Helms and now given a tarnished patina of intellectual respectability by William Bennett...